Kitchener's successor General O ’ Moore Creagh was nicknamed “ no More K ” and concentrated on establishing good relations with the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge.

This is the first time the British use poison gas in World War I and also their first large-scale use of ' New ' or Kitchener's Army units.

The bulk of the army was now made up of volunteers of the Territorial Force and Lord Kitchener's New Army, which had begun forming in August 1914.

* Kitchener's Army, a volunteer army in the First World War

French believed that the war would be over by summer 1915, as Germany had recently redeployed some divisions to the east, and in January 1915, with the concurrence of senior commanders ( e. g. Haig ), he asked for Kitchener's New Army volunteers to be incorporated into existing divisions as battalions rather than sent out as entire divisions, and further damaged his relationship with Kitchener by appealing in vain to the Prime Minister, Asquith, over his head.

This question over the availability of Territorial divisions for overseas service was one of Lord Kitchener's motivations for raising the New Army separately.

Though initially there was a surge in voluntary enlistment for the Irish regiments of the 10th ( Irish ) Division and the 16th ( Irish ) Division of Kitchener's New Service Army formed for the war, the enthusiasm did not last.

It is inspired by Alfred Leete's British poster for Kitchener's Army.

Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army

The New Army, often referred to as Kitchener's Army or, disparagingly, Kitchener's Mob, was an ( initially ) all-volunteer army formed in the United Kingdom following the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War.

Almost 2. 5 million men volunteered for Kitchener's Army.

( Since Kitchener's death in 1916, no other major figure opposed this fundamental change to the principles on which the New Army had been raised.

Kitchener's New Army was made up of the following Army Groups ( meaning a group of divisions similar in size to an army, not a group of armies ) and Divisions:

* E-book Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall at Project Gutenberg

The 9th ( Scottish ) Division, was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener to serve on the Western Front during the First World War.

The 10th ( Irish ) Division, was one of the first of Kitchener's New Army K1 Army Group divisions ( formed from Kitchener's ' first hundred thousand ' new volunteers ), authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War.

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Under Lord Kitchener's re-arrangement of the Indian army in 1904 the old Bombay command was abolished and its place was taken by the Western army corps under a lieutenant-general.

In Kitchener's 1903 reorganisation of the Indian Army, 4th Bombay Rifles became 104th Wellesley ’ s Rifles, to commemorate the fact that the regiment had been commanded in 1800 by Arthur Wellesley ( later the Duke of Wellington ).

This was now at Kitchener's specific request, for the Khartoum expedition.

The Somme was the first real test of this newly raised " citizen army " created following Lord Kitchener's call for recruits at the start of the war.

Lloyd George for instance – who may have taken credit for some of Kitchener's achievements in the field of munitions – was critical of Kitchener in his War Memoirs.

In 1899 Kitchener was presented with a small island in the Nile at Aswan in gratitude for his services ; the island was renamed Kitchener's Island in his honour.

were supported by the Viceroy Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who had originally lobbied for Kitchener's appointment, the two men eventually came into conflict.

) That failure, combined with the Shell Crisis of 1915 – amidst press publicity engineered by Sir John French – dealt Kitchener's political reputation a heavy blow ; Kitchener was popular with the public, so Asquith retained him in office in the new coalition government, but responsibility for munitions was moved to a new ministry headed by David Lloyd George.

He received a resounding vote of thanks from the 200 + Members of Parliament who had arrived to question him, both for his candour and for his efforts to keep the troops armed ; Sir Ivor Herbert, who, a week before, had introduced the failed vote of censure in the House of Commons against Kitchener's running of the War Department, personally seconded the motion.

This question over the availability of Territorial formations for overseas service was one of Lord Kitchener's original motivations for raising the New Army separately.

Following the outbreak of World War I in August, and the successful placement of the Home Rule Act on the statute books ( albeit with its implementation formally postponed ), Redmond made a speech in Woodenbridge, County Wicklow on September 20, in which he called for members of the Volunteers to enlist in an intended Irish Army Corps of Kitchener's New British Army.

She received Kitchener's permission two weeks later, although it only allowed her to travel as far as Bloemfontein and take one truck of supplies for the camps, about 12 tons.

Seven more Service Battalions were raised for Kitchener's Army and they were numbered 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th.

Included were many of the famous Pals battalions that had formed in response to Kitchener's call for volunteers in August 1914.

Early chapters deal with the formation of Kitchener's Army ( New Army ), for which 1 July was the first major battle, and the origins and planning of the Somme offensive.

Generals such as Sir William Robertson were critical of Kitchener's failure to ask the General Staff ( whose chief James Wolfe-Murray was intimidated by Kitchener ) to study the feasibility of any of these campaigns.

Lala Baba was captured by the 6th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment in what was the first combat action by any unit of Lord Kitchener's New Army.

After the war, a number of conspiracy theories were put forward, one by Lord Alfred Douglas, positing a connection between Kitchener's death, the recent naval Battle of Jutland, Winston Churchill, and a Jewish conspiracy.

General Erich Ludendorff, Generalquartiermeister and joint head ( with von Hindenburg ) of Germany's war effort, stated that Russian communist elements working against the Tsar had betrayed Kitchener's travel plans to Germany.

Five other MPs, J. L. Esmonde, Stephen Gwynn, Willie Redmond, William Redmond, and D. D. Sheehan, as well as former MP Tom Kettle, actually joined Kitchener's New Service Army during the war.

During the invasion phase of the war, in accordance with orders from Lord Kitchener's instructions mail from the Base Army Post Offices was forwarded to troops through the rail network, it accumulated at stations awaiting onward carriage.

In 1915 Thomson, a fluent French speaker, was sent to Bucharest as military attaché on Kitchener's initiative to bring Romania into the war.

In 1926, a hoaxer named Frank Power claimed in the Sunday Referee newspaper that Kitchener's body had been found by a Norwegian fisherman.

The 2009 novel The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott involves a retelling of the life of Hector MacDonald, and includes the battle and Kitchener's railway-building drive through Sudan.

This resulted in the Fashoda incident, where an expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Marchand was opposed by forces under Lord Kitchener's command.

The British 11th ( Northern ) Division, was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener, it fought at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.

The 12th ( Eastern ) Division, was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener.

The 14th ( Light ) Division was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener.

The 13th ( Western ) Division was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener.

Rainer was replaced on guitar by Kitchener's Rick VanDyk, formerly of Zero Option who had released an album in the early 90s.

The Somme was to be the first major offensive mounted by the British Expeditionary Force and the first battle to involve substantial numbers of battalions from Lord Kitchener's New Army.